The “Be Thankful” Challenge comes to me from Rob at Art by Rob Goldstein.  Thank you, Rob! 🙂

The Challenge Rules:

• Share this image in your blog post
• Write about 5 people in your life you are thankful for
• Write about 5 things in 2015 that you are thankful for
• Spread the love and challenge 5 other blogs to take part

I’m applying the rules creatively and I hope this is okay!

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My Five and Five Favorite Quotes on Thankfulness:

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ~Aldous Huxley

“I lay on the side of the dirt road next to a rocky trench, looked up to the gray morning sky, thankful for air, thankful for light, thankful to be alive.” ~Khaled Hosseini

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little….” ~Buddha

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:  it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ~William Faulkner

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~Henry Ward Beecher

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” ~Willie Nelson

“I feel a very unusual sensation — if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~John F. Kennedy

“If you have lived, take thankfully the past.” ~John Dryden

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What if, just for today, we were thankful for everything?

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My Five Challenge Nominees:

Brad at Bradscribe

Opher at Opher’s World

Raphaela at Hummingbird Redemption

Vic at Just Plain Ol’ Vic

Blue at Twice Twenty-Five

I also nominate EVERYONE who would like to participate! 🙂